Download or read book An Arabian Marriage written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laura stands frozen in front of the gates of a castle that looks straight out of a dark fairy tale. The owner’s name is Richard, and she wonders if he’s as terrifying as all the villagers say. But no matter what sort of man Richard is, she was sent here as a nanny and must look after his daughter. However, Richard swiftly and bluntly rejects the young Laura. She tries to find a way to get him to accept her as a nanny, but that is difficult to do when he keeps to the darkness in order to hide his scars. Richard was injured in an accident, but Laura wants him to come out into the light. It’s not just for his daughter Kelly’s sake, it’s for her sake and Richard’s, too!
Download or read book An Arabian Marriage written by Lynne Graham and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanny Frederica Sutton was living happily with toddler Ben, the son of her deceased cousin. But the minute that Jaspar Al Hasayn stalks into her apartment--all smoldering gorgeousness and arrogance--her happy little world is blown apart when she discovers that Ben is part of the Quamar royal lineage and a prince's son--and she could lose him forever. When Jaspar's family decides to take matters into their own hands and kidnaps Ben, Freddy is both heartbroken and furious. If getting little Ben back means blackmailing Jaspar into marrying her, then so be it As much as Freddy hates her cool-mannered new husband, there's something about his feral golden eyes--and she finds herself returning to his bed, night after ravenous night. Freddy's not just sleeping with the enemy--she's "married" to him.
Download or read book An Arabian Marriage written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nanny Frederica Sutton was living happily with toddler Ben, the sonof her deceased cousin. But the minute that Jaspar Al Hasayn stalksinto her apartment—all smoldering gorgeousness and arrogance—herhappy little world is blown apart when she discovers that Ben is partof the Quamar royal lineage and a prince's son—and she could losehim forever. When Jaspar's family decides to take matters into their own hands andkidnaps Ben, Freddy is both heartbroken and furious. If getting littleBen back means blackmailing Jaspar into marrying her, then so be it! As much as Freddy hates her cool-mannered new husband, there'ssomething about his feral golden eyes—and she finds herself returningto his bed, night after ravenous night. Freddy's not just sleeping withthe enemy—she's married to him.
Download or read book Escape From An Arab Marriage written by Cassandra and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2006-12 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Escape! From An Arab Marriage, Cassandra's first book, includes her personal story and documented stories of other women who became involved with Arab/Muslim men who have come from the Middle East. The women in these stories have learned firsthand the truth of how women are thought of in Islamic societies that 6th century traditional abuse and cruelty toward women, alive and well today, is still an everyday part of married life to an Arab/Muslim which includes abduction of any children to countries such as Saudi Arabia where they are forced to remain and where their heartbroken mothers can never see them again or bring them home. Also included in this book is a list of Islamic characteristics of marriages to Arab/Muslim males and of premarital relationships virtually every woman who becomes involved with these individuals inevitably finds herself facing. Not only has Cassandra herself had to survive such an environment, every person whose story is in this book has been the victim of a nightmare relationships she did not realize could exist in real life and that this is only the tip of the iceberg. There are many such stories which are never told because the women are too ashamed, too beaten down, or too afraid to tell anyone for fear of dire consequences for themselves or their children.
Download or read book Marrying the Millionaire written by Lynne Graham and published by . This book was released on 2006-07 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book AN ARABIAN COURTSHIP written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Starting today, you’re an Arabian princess.” In order to save her family by receiving a huge dowry, Polly marries a complete stranger, the prince of Dahrein. Her husband, Prince Raschid, is cold and controlling. Being married to him feels hopeless and dark. But even as she revolts against the life he has given her, she can’t resist his nightly seduction!
Download or read book Arabian Jazz written by Diana Abu-Jaber and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2003 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Balances are struck in this luminous first novel-between two radically distinct cultures, between obligation and self-will, between past and future, between hilarity and heartbreak-as the Jordanian family of Matussem Ramoud settles in a small, poor-white community in upstate New York.
Download or read book Superman is an Arab written by Joumana Haddad and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2012-09-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a manifesto against men in general. Nor is it a manifesto against Arab men in particular. It is, however, a howl in the face of a particular species of men: the macho species, Supermen, as they like to envision themselves. But Superman is a lie. In this explosive sequel to I Killed Scheherazade, Joumana Haddad examines the patriarchal system that continues to dominate in the Arab world and beyond. From monotheist religions and the concept of marriage to institutionalised machismo and widespread double standards, Haddad reflects upon the vital need for a new masculinity in these times of revolution and change in the Middle East. 'The revolution and its backlash are not just being fought in the streets, squares and elections across the Middle East, but also on the faces and bodies of millions of Arab women and their sisters across the world. Haddad speaks for all of us. It's time to listen.' Bidisha 'One of the most intelligent, talented and courageous young Arab poets and intellectuals today' Mahmoud Darwish 'The Germain Greer of Lebanon' Independent.
Download or read book The Heiress Bride written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2007-07-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Business tycoon and infamous playboy Alexio Christoulakis wasn't the marrying kind. Then one of the most powerful and wealthy men in Greece offers Alexio his daughter's hand in marriage, and Alexio decides that maybe a wife—especially one as compelling as Ione Gakis—might not be a bad idea after all. Unbeknownst to anyone outside of the Gakis family, Ione was adopted and has been fostered in an abusive and neglectful environment—a desperate prisoner on her tyrannical father's luxurious island. Marriage to Alexio can mean only one thing: escape. And if that means marrying a complete stranger and fleeing to England to find her real family, then the sooner Ione can get that wedding ring on her finger, the better.— But despite his compassion for Ione, Alexio won't tolerate a runaway wife. And he's going to make damn sure Ione never leaves his side—or his bed!
Download or read book A Woman Is No Man written by Etaf Rum and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Goodreads Choice Awards Finalist for Best Fiction and Best Debut • BookBrowse's Best Book of the Year • A Marie Claire Best Women's Fiction of the Year • A Real Simple Best Book of the Year • A PopSugar Best Book of the Year • A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • A Washington Post 10 Books to Read in March • A Newsweek Best Book of the Summer • A USA Today Best Book of the Week • A Washington Book Review Difficult-To-Put-Down Novel • A Refinery 29 Best Books of the Month • A Buzzfeed News 4 Books We Couldn't Put Down Last Month • A New Arab Best Books by Arab Authors • An Electric Lit 20 Best Debuts of the First Half of 2019 • A The Millions Most Anticipated Books of the Year “Garnering justified comparisons to Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns... Etaf Rum’s debut novel is a must-read about women mustering up the bravery to follow their inner voice.” —Refinery 29 The New York Times bestseller and Read with Jenna TODAY SHOW Book Club pick telling the story of three generations of Palestinian-American women struggling to express their individual desires within the confines of their Arab culture in the wake of shocking intimate violence in their community. "Where I come from, we’ve learned to silence ourselves. We’ve been taught that silence will save us. Where I come from, we keep these stories to ourselves. To tell them to the outside world is unheard of—dangerous, the ultimate shame.” Palestine, 1990. Seventeen-year-old Isra prefers reading books to entertaining the suitors her father has chosen for her. Over the course of a week, the naïve and dreamy girl finds herself quickly betrothed and married, and is soon living in Brooklyn. There Isra struggles to adapt to the expectations of her oppressive mother-in-law Fareeda and strange new husband Adam, a pressure that intensifies as she begins to have children—four daughters instead of the sons Fareeda tells Isra she must bear. Brooklyn, 2008. Eighteen-year-old Deya, Isra’s oldest daughter, must meet with potential husbands at her grandmother Fareeda’s insistence, though her only desire is to go to college. Deya can’t help but wonder if her options would have been different had her parents survived the car crash that killed them when Deya was only eight. But her grandmother is firm on the matter: the only way to secure a worthy future for Deya is through marriage to the right man. But fate has a will of its own, and soon Deya will find herself on an unexpected path that leads her to shocking truths about her family—knowledge that will force her to question everything she thought she knew about her parents, the past, and her own future.
Download or read book Married to a Bedouin written by Marguerite van Geldermalsen and published by Virago. This book was released on 2010-09-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: '"Where you staying?" the Bedouin asked. "Why you not stay with me tonight - in my cave?"' Thus begins Marguerite van Geldermalsen's story of how a New Zealand-born nurse came to be married to Mohammad Abdallah Othman, a Bedouin souvenir-seller from the ancient city of Petra in Jordan. It was 1978 and she and a friend were travelling through the Middle East when Marguerite met the charismatic Mohammad who convinced her that he was the man for her. A life with Mohammad meant moving into his ancient cave and learning to love the regular tasks of baking shrak bread on an open fire and collecting water from the spring. And as Marguerite feels herself becoming part of the Bedouin community, she is thankful for the twist in fate that has led her to this contented life. Marguerite's light-hearted and guileless observations of the people she comes to love are as heart-warming as they are valuable, charting Bedouin traditions now lost to the modern world.
Download or read book An Arabian Courtship written by Lynne Graham and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Islamic Marriage and Divorce Laws of the Arab World written by Dawoud El-Alami and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whilst other works exist which examine the Islamic law of personal status, this is the first to set out in a single volume the laws relating to marriage and divorce in the Arab states, both codified and uncodified, in a manner which will enable the reader to look up the provisions of the law in specific areas and, where required, to compare the positions of the laws of different countries.
Download or read book The Disobedient Mistress written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2015-05-13 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carlton Catering is in dire financial straits. With the help of Leone Andracchi, Misty Carlton might be able to save her company, but it's not just for pride or profit that she wants her company to avoid bankruptcy. She uses the money she makes to help her foster family keep their home and give a loving home to youth who find themselves without a family. But when Leone's plan to save her company involves her playing the part of his girlfriend, will Misty find the cost too high?
Download or read book Dark Angel written by Lynne Graham and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2019-06-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Lynne Graham, now available for the first time in e-book! Knight in shining armour… or avenging angel? International businessman Luciano de Valenza saved the Linwood family’s failing wine business and swept beautiful Kerry Linwood off her feet. Yet Kerry secretly feared Luciano didn’t want her, but rather the wine empire she would inherit. When money was embezzled from the business Luciano was locked up along with Kerry’s heart. Five years later, Luciano is back and out to clear his name. He’s certain that he was framed by the Linwoods and he’s planning to take everything that’s theirs—beginning with Kerry. He might have loved her in the past, but now he’s more determined than ever to have her…for revenge! Originally published in 2003
Download or read book At the Drop of a Veil written by Marianne Alireza and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The true story of a California girl's twelve years in the harem of her husband's Arabian family.
Download or read book Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia written by William Robertson Smith and published by Cambridge : University Press. This book was released on 1885 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: William Robertson Smith reveals the ancient familial and marital customs of Arabia, detailing their significance in the social and hierarchical structure of the society. First appearing in the 1880s, this enquiry did much to introduce and clarify Arabian customs of marriage and kinship to scholars working in the West. The place of the father and mother in the household, and the significance of children male and female, has a strong bearing on the community life of each tribe. Many tribes would use totemism to establish a person's lineage and relations, with totem symbols being commonplace in the Arabic tribes of yore. The bond of blood was considered enormously significant among nomadic groups; many felt a kinship even over vast geographic distances and despite meeting with one another only on rare occasions. Smith is meticulous in his sources, referencing historical documents produced in Arabia, in the courts of various rulers, as well as holy texts and other pertinent records. The result is an authentic and impeccably written narrative which sheds light not simply on its subject of family bonds, but on wider Arabian culture and history. This reprint reproduces the instances of Arabic and Hebrew text, so that readers can fully comprehend the significance and depth of the research.
